Anheuser-Busch InBev reported an increase in H1 net sales as it gained from last year's SABMiller acquisition. Take a closer look at the company's performance by region in the first six months of 2017.

SYTBRANA, the Haitian union that the IUF and particularly our Brewery Division and IUF affiliates at Heineken and beyond have supported through a lengthy struggle in Haiti has seen a significant improvement locally with full recognition for the union, an agreement in principle to reinstate dismissed union representatives and a change in local management attitude and personnel.

Heineken will end its distribution partnership with Coca-Cola Femsa in Brazil, following its €665 million acquisition of Kirin’s struggling Brazilian business.

The Dutch brewer said that it would review its future routes to market when it announced the acquisition in February. It has now confirmed that it will abandon its tie-in with Coca-Cola Femsa in favour of leveraging Brasil Kirin’s existing routes to market for the Heineken portfolio.

Just as the soda giants are going after startups making healthy, non-alcoholic fizz, so too is Anheuser-Busch InBev BUD -0.49% NV.

After signing a deal last year with Starbucks Corp. SBUX -0.03% to sell ready-to-drink tea, the world’s largest brewer said it is acquiring Hiball Inc., a San Francisco-based company making organic energy drinks and carbonated juices and water. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

Union delivery drivers and warehouse workers for beer distributor Clare Rose returned to work on Sunday July 16 after approving a new contract overwhelmingly, union and company officials said.

Teamsters Local 812 workers voted 83-12 Saturday to ratify the contract. The union members, who went on strike against the East Yaphank distributor on April 23, reached a tentative agreement with the company through a private mediator on Thursday July 13.

A $60,000 complaint against worker representatives by a local brewery partly owned by Carlsberg was largely dismissed on Friday by the Sihanoukville Provincial Court, though one of the defendants was still ordered to pay compensation to the company.

In a five-minute court hearing, Judge Keo Mony announced that “the court orders Mr Khem Mao to pay $3,000 to the beer company Cambrew, referring to the president of the local Democratic Workers Union of Angkor Beer Company. Mony, however, rejected the complaint against Cambodian Food and Service Workers Federation leader Sar Mora, without elaborating on the reasons.

Teamsters Local 812 and Clare Rose, the Anheuser-Busch distributor for Long Island, announced a tentative contract late Thursday, covering drivers and warehouse workers who have been on strike since April 23.

The contract guarantees that Clare Rose will continue contributions to the workers’ pension plan, reversing the company’s withdrawal from the pension that precipitated the strike. It also maintains wages that are well above industry standards and Clare Rose’s April offer. The agreement ends the strike after 82 days in which none of the 130 union members crossed the picket line. Members will vote to ratify the agreement Saturday.

Global brewery giant Carlsberg is using the courts to bully and intimidate the IUF-affiliated Cambodian Food and Service Workers Federation (CFSWF), the union representing workers at its Cambodian joint venture Cambrew. The union has been seeking reinstatement of the beer promotion women who were dismissed last year for contesting the unilateral worsening of their terms of employment. Now Cambrew is demanding punitive financial 'compensation' from the union following a strike by warehouse workers which the CFSWF neither organized nor officially endorsed.

The approved acquisition of SABMiller by AB Inbev on October 10,2016 will affect Inbev Ambev and Backus workers in Peru. News about the possible loss of between 5,500 and 6,000 jobs globally is a big concern for SABMiller and AB InBev workers.

Cristian Pari, the general secretary of the National Union of Ambev Peru (SUNTAMBEV) workers expressed concerns about the changes that will occur as a result of the acquisition of SABMiller by AB InBev.

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